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susapra
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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 12:06 pm
Post subject: To which extend do sitemaps help SEO?
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Anyone really notice a big traffic difference from search engines in regards to using a sitemap vs not using one?
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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 7:13 pm
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A site map allows your pages to be crawled more effectively.
More pages indexed. That is the benefit.
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XML Sitemaps? Yep and when SE's can read your internal XML Sitemap, they know more quickly when you have edited or added a new page.
Unless you are talking about the Sitemaps that human visitors can read, those are good too. 
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Create an XML sitemap format that can be submitted to Google to help them crawl your website better.
By placing a formatted xml file with site map on your webserver, you enable Search Engine crawlers (like Google) to find out what pages are present and which have recently changed, and to crawl your site accordingly.
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crm911
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Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 1:50 am
Post subject: Re: To which extend do sitemaps help SEO?
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| susapra wrote: | | Anyone really notice a big traffic difference from search engines in regards to using a sitemap vs not using one? |
Only in the speed in which the traffic patterns rose. We launched a site containing 2.5 million pages in late June and until mid October Google showed only 400k pages indexed. Then suddenly it showed the full 2.5M pages.
However, this made no change in the quantity of visitors as seen in the logs - they are rising in tiny amounts. There was a huge initial rise of 800k additional visits, but then each subsequent month was an extra 100k.
We didn't use a sitemap because every day 10-15k pages are updated and you have to build a custom sitemap generator that updates only a small number of sitemap files (limit of 50k URLs per sitemap files, so you need a collection of these and then you use sitemap.xml as an index to these).
For the typical small site >50 pages and <100,000 pages I'd recommend using an XML sitemap.
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